[diegoperini]

> Linux separates things such that I was looking at C files in drivers/platform/x86 and header files in include/linux/platform_data/x86. And the ACPI code lives other places as well. It’s all very orderly, but at times it felt like navigating a grocery store that arranges products in alphabetical order. Logical, but not exactly cozy.

So beautifully put!

[mjg59]

The ACPI code largely lives separately in Linux because it was contributed by Intel and is (as far as possible) intended to be dual-licensed GPL/BSD to ensure non-Linux OSes benefit from core improvements.